Tag Archives: Law Enforcement

The Lede, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 By David Royse Good Day, The LEDE Let’s Face a Coming Issue Two stories in recent days lead me to giving you an update here on surveillance and facial recognition. The first involves the increasing interest (including some pretty positive coverage in this newsletter) …

The Lede, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018 By David Royse I’m sorry, but you are one of the millions of American suckers checking email on a federal holiday. THE LEDE Holidays are supposed to give us a break, I say as I work on compiling and writing this email, which a surprisingly …

The Lede, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 By David Royse THE LEDE Looking for solutions. The gut-wrenching school shooting problem defies conventional efforts to quantify how bad the problem is. We can disagree statistically on whether it is “common” – there have been seven intentional shootings involving injury or death in schools …

Ford Global Technologies recently applied for a patent for an autonomous police car. Katie Pyzyk | Smart Cities DIVE The autonomous vehicle (AV) would detect when another vehicle violates a road law and could take actions either on its own or along with a human police officer. The patent application lists …

San Francisco’s District Attorney Says His Office Will Proactively Review and Void Marijuana Convictions Going Back to 1975 in Light of California’s New Legal Cannabis Law David Royse | LedeTree With marijuana use now legal for all adults in California, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday that his office …

Border agents got new rules this month on searching people’s electronics when they enter the United States. They can still do it, though if you’re an American citizen you can refuse. The Canadian Press In one of several testy exchanges during a U.S. Senate hearing this week, the country’s secretary …

The Lede, Friday Jan. 19, 2018 By David Royse Good morning. Some people may be on the verge of shutting down for the weekend – or longer – but not us. We have news on what’s new to take you into the weekend. You might be without a working federal government …

All 7,000 patrol officers in the Chicago Police Department now have body cameras, a year ahead of schedule. LedeTree Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced this past week that the city had finished equipping its officers with the required cameras, part of an ongoing effort to improve a department that has …

The civil rights movement for people of color and the cannabis industry have common interests and a major common concern, and should work together, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday. “We have more in common than we have apart. We can serve each other’s interest without losing each others identity,” …

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